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In the past decade computer and networking technology has seen enormous growth This growth however has not come without a price With the advent of the Information Highway as its coined a new methodology in crime has been created Electronic crime has been responsible for some of the most financially devastating victimizations in society In the recent past society has seen malicious editing of the Justice Department web page 1 unauthorized access into classified government computer files phone card and credit card fraud and electronic embezzlement All these crimes are committed in the name of free speech These new breed of criminals claim that information should not be suppressed or protected and that the crimes they commit are really not crimes at all What they choose to deny is that the nature of their actions are slowly consuming the fabric of our countrys moral and ethical trust in the information ageFederal law enforcement agencies as well as commercial computer companies have been scrambling around in an attempt to educate the public on how to prevent computer crime from happening to them They inform us whenever there is an attack provide us with mostly ineffective anti-virus software and we are left feeling isolated and vulnerable I do not feel that this defensive posture is effective because it is not pro-active Society is still being attacked by highly skilled computer criminals of which we know very little about them their motives and their tools of the trade Therefore to be effective in defense we must understand how these attacks take place from a technical stand-point To some degree we must learn to become a computer criminal Then we will be in a better position to defend against these victimizations that affect us on both the financial and emotional level In this paper we will explore these areas of which we know so little and will also see that computers are really extensions of people An attack on

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